+Audioboxer Subscriber² Posted January 21, 2013 Subscriber² Share Posted January 21, 2013 As we promised during the weekend in the next weeks we will unveil Durango and Orbis. All the technical info you want to know about the next generation machines from Sony and Microsoft.The first one is Durango. In this article we present the system overview with the general components and some technical details about them. How are durango components connected? Here you can see the Durango system block diagram: Durango Arquitecture Let?s check what?s inside the box: CPU: - x64 Architecture - 8 CPU cores running at 1.6 gigahertz (GHz) - each CPU thread has its own 32 KB L1 instruction cache and 32 KB L1 data cache - each module of four CPU cores has a 2 MB L2 cache resulting in a total of 4 MB of L2 cache - each core has one fully independent hardware thread with no shared execution resources - each hardware thread can issue two instructions per clock GPU: - custom D3D11.1 class 800-MHz graphics processor - 12 shader cores providing a total of 768 threads - each thread can perform one scalar multiplication and addition operation (MADD) per clock cycle - at peak performance, the GPU can effectively issue 1.2 trillion floating-point operations per second High-fidelity Natural User Interface (NUI) sensor is always present Storage and Memory: - 8 gigabyte (GB) of RAM DDR3 (68 GB/s) - 32 MB of fast embedded SRAM (ESRAM) (102 GB/s) - from the GPU?s perspective the bandwidths of system memory and ESRAM are parallel providing combined peak bandwidth of 170 GB/sec. - Hard drive is always present - 50 GB 6x Blu-ray Disc drive Networking: - Gigabit Ethernet - Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi Direct Hardware Accelerators: - Move engines - Image, video, and audio codecs - Kinect multichannel echo cancellation (MEC) hardware - Cryptography engines for encryption and decryption, and hashing Source: http://www.vgleaks.c...rango-unveiled/ Next gen will be awesome. Only other thing I can comment on was how daft the arguments on here got over Blu Ray, pretty obvious MS would go with it. FiB3R 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Montage Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 HDMI in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Audioboxer Subscriber² Posted January 21, 2013 Author Subscriber² Share Posted January 21, 2013 HDMI in? Might be for Kinect 2.0? oliver182 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BajiRav Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Ooh Wifi Direct, I wonder why they specifically call it out? If they go x64, they also risk rampant hacking that plagued the first Xbox. :/ I guess subsidy will be lower and price higher at launch? HDMI in? TV box function? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkanius Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 HDMI in is seriously ticking my fancy I wish it had a low powered mode for TV box function though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiB3R Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Only other thing I can comment on was how daft the arguments on here got over Blu Ray, pretty obvious MS would go with it. (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LUTZIFER Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Sweet... me like. Can't wait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrossCheck Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Might be for Kinect 2.0? i wouldn't be suprised if they figured out how to embed kinect into the console itself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BajiRav Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Might be for Kinect 2.0? Kinect doesn't use HDMI (doesn't make sense) and Kinect IN is shown right next to it. FiB3R 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.MULLA Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 what no HD-DVD!! only j/k :p Microsoft going to announce June 13th @ E3! so long to wait!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiB3R Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 i wouldn't be suprised if they figured out how to embed kinect into the console itself Having Kinect built into the console itself would be a ****ing nightmare for lots of people. There is a "Kinect In" on the diagram though, so not to worry :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLegendOfMart Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 HDMI IN is probably going to be for a Google TV affair, you plug your Cable/Terrestrial box into the Durango then the Durango into the TV and have its OS as an overlay to supplement the TV input. Microsoft are aiming this console to be the media hub for your home. Disappointed with the specs, I thought this generation was going to be very close, Microsoft is skimping on the GPU, 12CU compared to 18CU of Orbis. oliver182 and Jarrichvdv 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George P Global Moderator Posted January 21, 2013 Global Moderator Share Posted January 21, 2013 HDMI in is seriously ticking my fancy I wish it had a low powered mode for TV box function though It might, there is no reason it can't underclock itself when not playing a game. The cpu and gpu both could do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLegendOfMart Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 It might, there is no reason it can't underclock itself when not playing a game. The cpu and gpu both could do it. Not sure if AMD support it but 2 cores will be reserved for "always on" OS, they could disable 6 cores for "TV Mode". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Audioboxer Subscriber² Posted January 21, 2013 Author Subscriber² Share Posted January 21, 2013 Having Kinect built into the console itself would be a ****ing nightmare for lots of people. There is a "Kinect In" on the diagram though, so not to worry :) Yeah building in Kinect would not work. I overlooked the Kinect in part thinking it would be for Kinect 1. It will be for the new Kinect though, my bad, HDMI in is probably for cable/digital TV stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BajiRav Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Having Kinect built into the console itself would be a ****ing nightmare for lots of people. There is a "Kinect In" on the diagram though, so not to worry :) They can always "split" Kinect into two, sensors outside + separate and processing inside? 3GB memory for OS sounds like a lot for a console OS too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draconian Guppy Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 "leaked" :shifty: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
compl3x Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 Only other thing I can comment on was how daft the arguments on here got over Blu Ray, pretty obvious MS would go with it. Yep. We can go and poke fun at people here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cryptonym Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 Is there anyone else who thinks "Durango" is a terrible name for Xbox?:p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
compl3x Posted February 18, 2013 Share Posted February 18, 2013 Is there anyone else who thinks "Durango" is a terrible name for Xbox? :p It's just a codename, like Orbis is for the next Playstation :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLIFE Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 Sounds great. Can't wait for Orbis/Durango to be released so I can pick one of the two. Luvely! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rfirth Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 3GB memory for OS sounds like a lot for a console OS too. A console OS? I bet it runs Windows 8, minus the desktop... pretty much what Windows RT would be if there was a metro version of Office at launch. Actually, there is no reason why you shouldn't be able to plug in a keyboard and mouse and use it as a full PC. And apps for Xbox would be those WinRT Blue apps that are designed to be Windows 8, RT, WP8.5, and Xbox compatible, or of course designed for just one of those platforms (in this case Xbox), but using WinRT and sold in the Xbox Store. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaceelf Posted March 3, 2013 Share Posted March 3, 2013 Not sure if AMD support it but 2 cores will be reserved for "always on" OS, they could disable 6 cores for "TV Mode". I believe the processors have an ARM chip on die taking care of that bit. I could be wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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